A new intervention in the rear garden of a historic Bennell house is more than just a simple garden shed. Measuring just six metres by four metres, it features bespoke steel-framed, glazed windows and an inlaid, exposed aggregate concrete floor, transforming what was once an unhealthy, introverted, cold residence into a happy home. The little room was inspired by George Bernard Shaw’s writing retreat, and is now Jamie and Seonaids’ place to relax, switch off, listen to music, and get some sun (which, like George, they found they were dearly missing) while contemplating their beautiful garden.<\/p>\n
The design follows a few key heritage strategies \u2013 new is not confused with old, form and scale are respectful, and points of attachment are clearly articulated. These simple gestures make more of less, with no fuss, and allow a heritage building to sensitively accommodate renewed joy and delight for a happy home on Bennell Way.<\/p>\n
Architects<\/strong><\/p>\n Birrelli art+design+architecture<\/a><\/p>\n Practice Team<\/strong><\/p>\n Design architect \u2013 Jack Birrell<\/p>\n Senior architect \u2013 Lynden Jones<\/p>\n Graduate of architecture \u2013 Felix Blackman<\/p>\n Graduate of architecture \u2013 Toby MacElwaine<\/p>\n Consultants<\/strong><\/p>\n Principal builders \u2013 Aaron Nicholls, Mark Hawksley, Branden Lee<\/p>\n Builders \u2013 Nicholls Construction<\/p>\n Engineer \u2013 Alan Leake<\/p>\n Photographer \u2013 Nina Hamilton<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Commercial Architecture<\/a> | Education<\/a> | Heritage<\/a> | Interior Architecture<\/a> | Public Architecture<\/a> | Residential Architecture \u2013 Houses (Alterations & Additions)<\/a> | Residential Architecture \u2013 Houses (New)<\/a> | Small Project Architecture<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″] Bennell Way \u2013 Writers’ Retreat A new intervention in the rear garden of a historic Bennell house is more than just a simple garden shed. Measuring just six metres by four metres, it features bespoke steel-framed, glazed windows and an inlaid, exposed aggregate concrete floor, transforming what was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":643,"featured_media":0,"parent":5808,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-full.php","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5845","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.architecture.com.au\/tasawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.architecture.com.au\/tasawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.architecture.com.au\/tasawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.architecture.com.au\/tasawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.architecture.com.au\/tasawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5845"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/wp.architecture.com.au\/tasawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7395,"href":"https:\/\/wp.architecture.com.au\/tasawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5845\/revisions\/7395"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.architecture.com.au\/tasawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.architecture.com.au\/tasawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} <\/h3>\n
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